Study shows simple writing assignment improves minority student grades
Thursday, April 16, 2009 - 13:42
in Psychology & Sociology
In a follow-up to a 2006 study, a University of Colorado at Boulder researcher and his colleagues found that an in-class writing assignment designed to reinforce students' sense of identity and personal integrity increased the grade-point averages of African-American middle school students over a two-year period, and reduced the rate at which these students were held back or placed in remediati